Clifford Brown - Saint-Jacome?

[PacoTheTrumpeter]

Hi -

I'm wondering if someone can help me with this. I have been under the impression for a long time that in addition to working from the Arban method, Clifford Brown had studied from the Saint-Jacome method, but I can't for the life of me remember where I got that idea. Does anyone have any idea of A) whether this is true or not and B) if there is a reputable source that makes this claim?

Thanks!

[PacoTheTrumpeter]

Bump...

[PH]

I hadn't heard that. I know that Clifford supposedly studied from some method (can't remember the name) that was a systematic approach to Arban.

Freddie supposedly worked more out of St.-Jacome as a youth than Arban, as that was the preferred method of his teacher, Max Woodbury.
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[kehaulani]

Although he post dates Clifford, wasn't St. Jacome also preferred by Claude Gordon?
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[PacoTheTrumpeter]

Thank you for the replies. I think the Prescott System was what Clifford Brown's high school band director used as an organized approach to working through the entire Arban method.

I'm worried that I might have just misread something years ago and had this Saint-Jacome connection in my mind ever since. The Saint-Jacome's inclusion of the upper register above high C and varied multiple articulation drills, as well as a section on how to create variations on a theme seem so well suited to developing some of Clifford's skill areas that I was hoping someone would confirm that he had, indeed, worked out of the book.

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[Uberopa]

Is it the Prescott system that he used?